Thanks! I will keep that in mind. On Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 10:43:02 PM UTC-7, Venkatraman.S. wrote: > > Good initiative. I tried it as well. The biggest problem I stumbled > on(pointed by you) was structured data as well. The dataset on NCRB is > still around 2014 and there is no latest info spanning the last few years. > > Something that I did a few years back : > http://indiatogether.org/gender-gap-wef-and-crimes-against-women-ncrb-women > > I would recommend that > - you do not have pre-built charts, but let the queries be dynamic which > would let the user choose different types of attributes and see the > trend(s) based on the query. Ability to cross-correlate is lost in the case > of pre-built biz. > - Also, you can have a dedicated section, which highlights some of the > jarring patterns as observed - this section can be prebuilt. > > -V > @venkasub <http://about.me/venkasub> > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Saurabh Datar <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am a journalism student at Stanford. It's been really great being a >> part of this group and I've learnt a lot. I wanted to reach out to you to >> ask for some feedback on a project I am working on. >> >> I am creating an interactive website for India's crime data as my thesis >> project. It will basically allow people to compare crimes across different >> cities and types. I plan to have dedicated pages for each crime category >> and each city, with basic charts (line, bar) to illustrate the data. Users >> will also be able to download the data as CSVs. I am sure all of you know >> that NCRB releases the data in lovely 600-page PDFs every year :) Given the >> time limitations, I have scraped data for cities for the last five years >> and am looking to build on that. >> >> I hope to know more about what you would like to see as a feature -- or >> if there are some caveats that you'd like to point out. I would like for >> the project to be useful to the journalism and open data community, and >> would love to know your suggestions and tailor my project accordingly. >> >> Please feel free to ping me here or email me separately. >> >> PS: If anyone needs PDFs converted to Excel/CSV, hit me up. I have a >> subscription to CometDocs (part of the journalism program requirements) and >> would be happy to help out. >> >> Cheers, >> Saurabh >> >> -- >> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >
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